Jumping-toy figure



Nov, 16 ,1926. y A1,607,191

H. FISCHER JUHPING TOY FIGURE' l Filed Jan. 15'. 19-26 fig.

. Pafentedf Nov. ie, 192e.

rod 10 'a hind-le wardly j surface.

UNITED STTES HENRICH FISCHER, 0F NRNBERG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM': H.

& co.,or NURNBERG. BAVARIAM'GERMANm JUMPING-TOY FIGURE.

Application led January 15, 1926,-Seria1 No. 81,515, and in Germany November 19, 1925.

This invention relates to a jumping toy figure the jumping movements of which are produced by a slowl advancing of the hindlegswhich press by a projection onto the surface of a support and by a sudden jumping back of said hind-legs.-

.An embodiment of the invention is shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 shows the jumping toy figure in horizontal section.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section, and l Fig. is a similar vertical section, the toy figure being. turned end to end with regard to Fig. 1 and the members of the same being shown in other position,as in Fig. 2.

The jumping toy figure is shown on the drawing as imitating a frog. It consists of the body l made in two parts and from sheet iron, and of the front legs 2 made from sheet iron and rigidly xedon the body.I In the frog-shaped body 1 a clockwork 3 of commonly l wheel 4 of the clockwork has outwardly directed Acatches 5 displaced at 90 the one to the other. These catches are adapted to act successively upon the hook-shaped top end 6 of'an upright bow 7 which is oscillatably mounted on an axle 8 fixed in the clockwork frame. A strong spiral spring 9, the front en d of which is fixed on the frame of the clockwork casing 3 is attached with its other endto the upper ends of one side ofthe bow 7. In the lower end of the lbow 7 a transverse rod 10 is journalled the ends of which project through slots 11 in the frogs'haped body 1. On each projecting end of 12 is fixed. The two hindlegs 12 are furt er connected the one with the other by a transverse rod 13 which is journalled in an upright bow 14, the upper endvof which is fixed on a transverse .axle 15 journalled in the frame of the clockwork casing 3. The bows 7 and 14 form together a parallel guiding for the hind-legs of the frog, said hind legs having veach a down- 1 The operation Yof the toy-ligure is as folows ,j

When the clockwork runs in the direction of the arrow a (Fig. 3) the catches 5 of the drivin wheel 4 act successively lupon the hook-s aped end 6 of the upright bow 7 and make the same oscillate in a, direction oppoused type is located. 1 A driving directedpiece 16 xed on-its lowerf `combination a site to that shownl by arrow Zi (Fig. 3) so FISCHER that the'spiral spring 9 is put under tension. The rear legs 12 of the frog are therefore slowly pulled forwards under the body 1. As' soon as the hook-shaped end -6 and.

bow 7 is released by a catch 5 of the driving 'wheel 4 the hind-legs 12 have thevtendency to jump back under the action of the spiral spring 9 but as the projecting pieces 16 of y the hind legs 12 press against the support, the legs cannot jump back and the body 1 will jump forward. When the next following catch 5 of the driving wheel 4 strikes' against the hook-shaped end 6 of bow 7 the operation begins again so that the toy-figure remains intermittently at rest during which time the hind legs 12 are pulled underneath the body 1 which jumps forward again.

It is not necessary that the toy-ligure has the shape of a frog, it might imitate for instance another animal, a man, la vehicle or the like.

- I claim 1. A jumping toy-gure comprising in combination a body of convenient shape imitating for instance a frog, a clockwork inl said body, stationary front legs on the body, an axle journalled in the rear end of the clockwork, an upright bow pivotably mounted adjacent its upper end on said axle, a 'hook-shaped forwardly projecting end' on said upright bow, means actuated by said clockworkI for oscillating said bow including a strong spiral spring attached at the front end lto the clockwork casing and at the rear end to the upper end of said upright bow, a second axle journalled in said clockwork casing in front of said first mentioned axle, a downwardly projecting front bow fixed at the upper end on said axle, a transverse rod journalled in the lower end ofl said springcontrolled upright bow and projectin at either end from said body, hind legs xed one on each projecting end of said transverse rod, a transverse axle journalled in the lower end of said second mentioned upright bow and `fixed in said hind' legs, a vdownwardly and rearwardly projecting piece on the lower end of each hind leg to permit forward and to dprevent rearward-movement of each leg relative to the supporting' surface, .whereby said body will jump forward When said spring-controlled bow is released.

2. A jumpin toy-figure comprising 1n ody of convenient s ape imitating for instance a frog having a longitudinal slot at each side in thel rear portion, a clockwork in said body, stationary.

front legs on the body, an axle journalled in the rear end of the clockwork, an upright bow pivotably mounted adjacent its upper end on said axle, a hook-shaped forwardly projecting end on said upright bow, a strong spiral spring attached at the front end to the clockwork casing land at the rear end to the upper end of said upright bow, a driving gear wheel of said clockwork and four catches projecting from the outer surface of said driving gear wheel for intermittently moving -said bow against the tension of said spring and then releasing it, a second axle journalled in said clockwork casing in front of said first mentioned axle,

a downwardly projecting front bow fixed at the upper end on said axle, a transverse rod journalled in the lower end of said springcontrolled upright bow and rojecting ateither endthrough said'longitudinal slots l 

